Improvement in corn-huskers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM ALLEN DICK, OF OLEVES, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-HUSKERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 168,624, dated October11, 1875 application tiled June 26, 1675.

To all whom it may concern .Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. DICK, ofGleves, Horn county, Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Oorn-Husker,of which the following is a speoiiication:

My invention consists of a kind of pod augershaped tool, with a pointedtip a little in advance of the cutting-lip arranged on ahorizonlalrevolving aXle, in combination with a sliding table to Feed thecorn-ears up to the tool, the object being` to remove the shucks Withoutthe loss attending the old methods,

moving the husks; and F is the sliding table for feeding the ears up tothe tool. The ears being laid on the table with the butt ends to thetool and moved up to it, the butts. will be ground or turned o and thehusks cut and separated therefrom by thelip D, the point E being acenter to hold the stub or butt to the lip.

The sliding table will be mounted on springs, so that it can bedepressed to adjust large ears to the tool.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- The combination of the rotating, husking, andstub-cutting tool D E, and the sliding table F, substantially as and forthe purpose set forth.

WILLIAM ALLEN DICK. Witnesses:

JAs. W. BoerART,` J oEN INGRAM.

